Archive for the ‘murdoch’ Category

Singing the News

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Late last year, Rupert Murdoch stunned the business world when he appointed a 27 year old opera singer with no business or journalism experience to the board of News Corp. Now she wants to set the record straight.

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Rupert Murdoch: serving God and Mammon

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Rupert Murdoch has shown you can serve God and Mammon: he has bought Beliefnet, the largest online faith and spirtuality network.

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Rupert Murdoch and the accidental director

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Rupert Murdoch continues to rewrite the rules of corporate governance by appointing Natalie Bancroft, a 27-year old opera singer, to the News Corp board. With no experience in journalism and business, she has been put there to rubber-stamp Murdoch.

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Mayne vs Murdoch

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

A persistent and effective Australian shareholder activist has forced Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to consider a motion at its next annual general meeting that would scrap News Corp’s outrageous gerrymander system of Class A and Class B shares that ensure Murdoch stays in control with only 15 per cent of the equity.

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Mayne vs Murdoch

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

A persistent and effective Australian shareholder activist has forced Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to consider a motion at its next annual general meeting that would scrap News Corp’s outrageous gerrymander system of Class A and Class B shares that ensure Murdoch stays in control with only 15 per cent of the equity.

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Murdoch: After the WSJ, what’s next?

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

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Now that he has The Wall Street Journal, what’s next for Rupert Murdoch?

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Rupert Murdoch and the WSJ

Monday, July 30th, 2007

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With Rupert Murdoch’s bid for Dow Jones on a knife-edge , the pros and cons of the prospective takeover need to be examined. And the negatives are worrying. This takeover is certainly in Murdoch’s interests but it’s not in the public’s because it will mean the loss of another voice.

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